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| 9 Aug 2024 | |
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Join Anita in celebrating the Launch of The Bower’s unique Festival of Repair and the Sustainable Art Exhibition on Wednesday 14 August from 6pm at the Bower Reuse and Repair Centre at 107 Redfern St, Redfern.
Tickets to the opening are $10 and can be purchased here.
Speaking at the Opening Night with Anita will be:
You will also be able to watch a range of repair demonstrations – for furniture, electronic goods, clothing, bikes and more.
The Festival of Repair and Sustainable Art Exhibition will run from 12 to 18 August 2024. The full Program can be found here.
Anita was a high achiever at MLC School and went on to study Aeronautical Space Engineering at the University of Sydney. After a time in the corporate world, she decided to focus on her goal of becoming an Aerospace Doctor for NASA and commenced a postgraduate Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Notre Dame.
At the same time, Anita started an Instagram account (@rocket_science) and a website (www.anitavandyke.com) that documents her minimalist and zero waste journey, and also provides a creative outlet for her engineering mind to investigate solutions to plastic waste.
Anita’s first book, A Zero Waste Life: In thirty days, won Gold at the Nautilus Book Awards in 2019 and has been translated into seven languages. After becoming a mother, she followed this up with A Zero Waste Family: In thirty days.
In 2023, Anita was awarded a Young Alumnae Award for Social Welfare and Impact at the MLC School Alumnae Awards.